Małgorzata Bonikowska, PhD
Małgorzata Bonikowska, PhD
e-mail: m.bonikowska@vistula.edu.pl
Faculty: Business and International Relations
Field of study: International Relations
Holder of PhD in European history, specialist in European studies, expert in the European Union problems (member of Team Europe), president of Center for International Relations (www.csm.org.pl) and editor of the ‘Think-Tank’ quarterly (www.think-tank.pl)
She specializes in foreign policy and EU security, with particular attention to the neighborhood policy, global European strategy and EU-Asia relations. Graduate of Warsaw University (Italian Studies), Academy of Dramatic Art (history of culture, diploma with honors) and Paris Sorbonne (history), she completed two doctoral studies as well as specialist studies at Columbia University in New York (political sciences and international relations, Fulbright scholarship).
In the years 1995-1998, she worked for TVP as a journalist specializing in national and international issues. In 1998, she became head of the Centre for European Information of the Office for the European Integration Committee, creating, among others, a network of regional centers and a government Program for Informing the Society about the EU. In the years 2001-2007, she was first an expert and then head of the European Commission Information and Communication Program – first in Poland and later in Bulgaria. In the years 2007-2016, she worked for the government Center for the Development of Human Resources as an adviser for EU matters. She worked as an adviser, among others, to the Ministry of Education and Science, Ministry of Labor and Social Policy, Ministry of Health and Ministry of Development.
She authored over one hundred publications. She conducts didactic and scientific activity. She also comments European and international issues in Polish and foreign media.
Teaching/research interests:
- EU in the global environment;
- EU Foreign and Security Policy;
- EU-Asia relations;
- Indo-Pacific;
- Poland’s European and foreign policy;
- international economic relations;
- cross-cultural management.